For real, though sound mixing and the actual quality of a soundtrack are another important factor. Diablo 3's soundtrack is largely derivative and forgettable.

Fighting games can have a similar problem these days. Case in point: Dragon Ball FighterZ. The game looks and sounds stellar, but the overabundance of character voices for every. single. move. gets annoying and drowns out the BGM. Older fighting games showed more restraint on that front because they had to for technical reasons, but it turned out better for the overall experience. Sometimes, less is more.

[EDIT] About Diablo 1: played it back in the day, never made it far. Not even sure I beat the Skeleton King. Still, it was scary good fun. Replayed it to completion a few years ago, it's still a great game, if really broken. You can forget about using the Warrior because of blockstun. Wizard is clearly the superior class, and Mana Shield makes the game very easy. I never could finish Diablo 2 though. Got stuck before Duriel with the necro, and at the start of Act 3 with the Sorceress. Those damn pygmees...

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Searching for a reason to play and I can't find one. I did my GR100+ solo clear with ease. I got all the stash tabs from seasons that I can get. I've done everything with the classes I'm interested in. I see no alterations that will make any classes, sets or variety more interesting on the horizon. So what's left for me? Looks like nothing.

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Season 11 will be ending on the following dates and times:
North America: Friday, October 20 @ 5:00 p.m. PDT
Europe: Friday, October 20 @ 5:00 p.m. CEST
Asia: Friday, October 20 @ 5:00 p.m. KST

Season 12 will begin about four weeks afterward on the dates below:
North America: Thursday, November 9 @ 5:00 p.m. PDT
Europe: Thursday, November 9 @ 5:00 p.m. CEST
Asia: Thursday, November 9 @ 5:00 p.m. KST
Note: Season 12 will begin on a Thursday to ensure there is adequate time to respond to potential issues with Seasons before the weekend begins.

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If they don't update the season journey goals some people will be finishing in hours.

Up to Act V Nightmare with my D2 summonmancer. I could probably blow through Hell if I open up corpse explosion but that would be cheating.

The boss strategy is basically a CC lockdown. I hit them with the Decrepify curse which slows them, the clay golem attacks slow them, the cold rogue slows them, and the skelly mages with cold slow them. They attack like once every 5 seconds but is still takes forever to whittle them down.

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How have seasons been on console? I sadly parted with my copy some time ago, but that was LONG before anyone thought seasons would ever hit consoles. Mulling whether or not I should jump back in if I can find a copy on the cheap.

Every season there are Conquests which are achievements for things like reaching GR75 solo, getting X billion gold in a single chain, kill all bosses in 20 minutes. Check your seasonal Achievements menu. The first X number of people to complete these each season go on a leaderboard for each conquest and get announced.

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Every season there are Conquests which are achievements for things like reaching GR75 solo, getting X billion gold in a single chain, kill all bosses in 20 minutes. Check your seasonal Achievements menu. The first X number of people to complete these each season go on a leaderboard for each conquest and get announced.

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The D2 pure Summonmancer dream appears to be dead. The summons do not do enough damage on Hell. You need a lot of gear to boost them and then they are kind of filler for the real damage skills which are all on the Poison and Bone tab.

To cap it off all the summons (especially Revives) will despawn if you move too quickly. Like you run into town too quickly and half your army dies. I should of done a Lightning Trapper.

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If anyone here has the Succubus pet could you send one to X-Factor11 ?
I have most other pets but can't seem to get one of these to drop after doing so many hours of bounties (Royal Crypts and Moon Clan cave).

There's official GAF clans for EU and US both, couldn't say about Asia, but I doubt you play on that realm. The clans are usually really active for the first 2, 3 weeks of a season, at which point people playing drop off sharply, since most folks will have completed their season journey or whichever goals they had otherwise.

I'm kinda curious if the buffs and balancing changes coming with 2.6.1 will usher in a greater influx of players, though I'm not holding my breath. It's still the same game, you just go higher now .

Anyway, if you're playing on EU, I can get you into the clan. Just need your full battletag like Name#XXXX and I'll get right on it.

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Well, S11 ends tomorrow. I really enjoyed this season, my Necro is now one of my favorite classes in the game, if not the favorite. Much like the Diablo II necro I just find him fun to play. Summonancer of course.

Looking so forward to S12 though. I know it starts in three weeks but I hope the 2.6.1 patch goes up next week.

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Well, S11 ends tomorrow. I really enjoyed this season, my Necro is now one of my favorite classes in the game, if not the favorite. Much like the Diablo II necro I just find him fun to play. Summonancer of course.

Looking so forward to S12 though. I know it starts in three weeks but I hope the 2.6.1 patch goes up next week.

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No one knows. The lunatics had it pegged this thursday, which went nowhere. It's probably going to be on a tuesday, since the last two big patches went live then (in the US, that is). EU trails behind a little, maybe up to two days.

Expectations have it to be either on the 24th or 31st of October, which are tuesdays. Reason being that this would give Blizzard time to fix / adjust stuff if it breaks. S12 starts on the 9th of November, a little less than 3 weeks from now. I'd like to see it go live next week, but I'm not holding my breath here. At least it shouldn't be just short of season start.